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Were one to listen to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, or Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, one might come away with the impression that electric vehicles (EVs) are so popular, the government’s intention of mostly replacing internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles with EVs by 2030 was a foregone conclusion. After all, the Mummified Meat Puppet Administration (MMPA) tells us they’ll build a half million fast chargers across America by then to handle the load, and they’ve allocated $7.5 billion we don’t have to that noble endeavor. Confronting Secretary Pete with the fact that in two years his bureaucracy has managed to build...

Seizing Mayor Adams’ phones and tablet on the street in public is the latest sign the feds aren’t simply investigating him: They’re out to inflict maximum embarrassment in a political vendetta, presumably in retribution for the noise he’s made about President Biden’s disastrous border policies. The mayor is easy to find, 24/7/365: What reason to ambush him publicly event except to humiliate him? And why else make sure his No. 1 press enemy, The New York Times, gets the story first? Mind you, this follows the opening raid in this investigation — which stormed the home of his top fund-raiser...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 prompted almost immediate predictions from U.S. officials that Kyiv would fall within days, aligning with prior assessments of Moscow’s military prowess and seemingly cementing an inevitable occupation of its former Soviet territory. Six months later, Kyiv remains under the control of the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and news reports have instead focused this week on Moscow, where a car bomb killed an influential member of Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, shocking top officials in the Kremlin with what they themselves say was a brazen attack orchestrated by Ukraine, however unlikely so. It...

Director of Harvard humanitarian center apologizes after being filmed confronting mother whose daughter was playing outside her home and 'preventing her children from sleeping' Alyson Laliberte filmed some of her encounter with Theresa Lund on Saturday She posted the clip on her Facebook, where it has attracted 700,000 views In the clip, Lund repeatedly asks Laliberte if she lives in an 'affordable unit' Lund is the executive director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at Harvard University The director of a Harvard research center has apologized after she was filmed confronting a neighbor whose daughter was playing outside her home and...

If not, then he's at least got to go to court to defend himself: A University of Pennsylvania student is trying to have Republican presidential candidate John Kasich removed from the state's primary ballot. Nathaniel Rome, a Penn sophomore and chairman of the Pennsylvania Students for Rubio network, has petitioned Commonwealth Court to remove Kasich from the April 26 primary election ballot, alleging that the Ohio governor did not meet the statutory requirement of at least 2,000 signatures on his nominating petition. Rome, a resident of Strafford, Chester County, contends in his court filing that as many as 802 of...